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Explore the remarkable history of California’s Chinook salmon, from the millions that once returned to Central Valley rivers to the dramatic declines caused by habitat loss, overharvesting, and landscape changes. This evening presentation will highlight the science and restoration efforts helping bring salmon back, including innovative work in the Yolo Bypass and the remarkable recovery of Putah Creek. Along the way, we’ll explore salmon’s ecological, cultural, and historical connections to California.
Join TERC in welcoming Dr. Carson Jeffres from the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences. His research focuses on how physical processes within a watershed create ecologically important conditions favorable to a productive food web and include sampling water quality, hydrologic conditions, primary producers (plants), invertebrates, and fish. He is currently working on the floodplains of the Central Valley looking at detritial food webs and salmon growth and investigating the use of isotopes as environmental fingerprints to determine successful life history strategies and habitats.
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Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Presentation begins at 6:00 p.m. at the UC Davis Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences building located on the UNR Lake Tahoe Campus in Incline Village. No-host bar and light snacks will be available.
Admission is $10 and free for students with a valid student ID.
For more information call 775-881-7560, or visit http://tahoe.ucdavis.edu/events/.